Emerging Civil War

Brian Swartz talks about his new Emerging Civil War Series biography Passing Through the Fire: Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain in the Civil War.

Celebrate Emerging Civil War's 10th Anniversary with a pair of books about the Civil War Summer of '63. Chris Mackowski and Dan Welch go behind the scenes on the project in the new episode of the Emerging Civil War podcast.

Read more in The Summer of '63: Gettysburg and The Summer of '63: Vicksburg and Tullahoma.

Award-winning historian Steve Davis talks about the early phases of the 1864 Atlanta Campaign. His years of research on the campaign have resulted in seven books, including A Long and Bloody Task: The Atlanta Campaign from Dalton through Kennesaw to the Chattahoochee, May 5-July 18, 1864 in the Emerging Civil War Series.

Chris Mackowski and Nathan Provost have a wide-ranging conversation about the Overland Campaign, which was in full swing 157 years ago this month.

Historian Diana Dretske discusses the esprit de corps between men from the same Illinois hometown with similar but dissimilar backgrounds--the subject of her new book, The Bonds of War: A Story of Immigrants and Esprit de Corps in Company C, 96th Illinois Volunteer Infantry.

Dwight Hughes shares about the Battle of Hampton Roads, the development and technology of the ironclads, and his new book in the Emerging Civil War Series, Unlike Anything That Ever Floated: The Monitor and Virginia and the Battle of Hampton Roads, March 8-9, 1862.

Historian Greg Mertz talks Shiloh, Gettysburg, Fredericksburg-Spotsylvania and more as he looks back, on the eve of his retirement, on more than three and a half decades with the National Park Service.

Greg is the author of Attack at Daylight and Whip Them: The Battle of Shiloh, April 6-7, 1862 in the Emerging Civil War Series.

Brian Matthew Jordan looks a regiment--the 107th Ohio Infantry--both typical and unique to explore life, death, and survival in the Union Army in his new book, A Thousand May Fall.

Cartographer Steve Stanley and historian Kris White discuss mapping the battlefields of the Civil War's western theater for the American Battlefield Trust.

Their book, Battle Maps of the Civil War: The Western Theater, is now available.

Visit the Confederacy's "Embattled Capital" with authors Bert Dunkerly and Doug Crenshaw as they talk about their new book, Embattled Capital: A Guide to Richmond During the Civil War.